Comments on: How to Choose a Host Without Getting Ripped-Off — 6 Practical “Rules of Thumb” to Remember.

By: Damir Tankovic

Damir Tankovic — Sun, 31 Jan 2010 19:37:19 +0000

Great post above.

Also check the term Unlimited Hosting of data (files) and domain names.

Many of the hosting companys do not allow U to host adult websites and unlimited data (files) – they use misleading terms just to suck U in.

Also be careful if U register domain names with the hosting provider – are they registered under Ur name ?

The Hosting company can take ur domain names and u wasted ur money

By: Robert C - The Wholesale Products Guy

Robert C - The Wholesale Products Guy — Sun, 04 Jan 2009 20:57:02 +0000

I have been with Hostgator for over a year now, and I have never experienced any downtime.

I am not monitoring my up-time, but my site use to go down a minimum of about six times a year because of denial of service attacks at my first host..

I have not experienced one bit of problem from the “Gator” in terms of my site “falling down”. They were also pretty good at responding to my DMCA Complaint.

I am very surprised that for such a cheap price, they can provide such good service. They seemed like just another company that “oversells” their services.

My next hosting company was timing out my site – and giving me “500 Internal Server error” messages. Supposedly, this happens if you exceed their memory and CPU usage limits.

I only had a simple site, with no scripts or data bases added to the mix. Same site that is now hosted at the “Gator”.

No such limits should have been exceeded. I was a bit leary of going with another host that seemed like they were offering a lot – for a little.

But, I am glad I did…Go Gators..

Robert C. – The Wholesale Products Guy

By: Mr. K

Mr. K — Thu, 25 Dec 2008 05:05:31 +0000

I have a host that seems very cheap and allows 6 or seven domains with static address for each and tons of storage space. However, after I was signed up for a while I notice the fine print that said there is a maximum of 5 GB of database space. Most content management systems use the database for storage. So the 300 GB advertised was of limited use for a great deal of uses. It is still pretty good value but I definitely see your point of needing to pay attention to the details before signing up.

By: roccodl

roccodl — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 01:27:51 +0000

Excellent article especially for a newbie, there really is so much to learn, I have around 40 domains at present mainly with GoDaddy & 123-reg but certainly will look at Hostgator Excellent help and advice, thanks guys

By: Raj

Raj — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 07:31:26 +0000

nice post Lord Brar Thanx! Hostgator is absolutely a best hosting company out there with good technical support and perfect management.

By: Mindaugas

Mindaugas — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 19:00:14 +0000

IMHO, really good host is one, when support isn’t needed at all. Without downtimes & other troubles, I mean.

I’ve tried over 20 hosts since 1st site, but probably best one is IX for me.

By: Aryabhatta

Aryabhatta — Tue, 20 May 2008 09:22:42 +0000

I agree with the Lord, I have signed up yesterday and I like the easy and simplicity of use of the hostgator interface facilty. I also used the Jury code to get a month free. Thanks to the might lord for pointing out the coupon.

By: Lord Brar

Lord Brar — Mon, 12 May 2008 20:54:18 +0000

Thanks Art – I would love to visit London soon… just need to find a good excuse. Right now I will be going for ICANN Paris in June and spending some time in Sweden. =)

But thanks for the offer and I will certainly keep it in mind.

By: ArtMS

ArtMS — Mon, 12 May 2008 20:10:29 +0000

Sir Brar, i got to say i really like your answers and the best thing about them is that they are honest, i really appreciate your advise and you probably saved me over £100($200), i will use your link and purchase right now, i hope we can help you with something in the UK, if you require any sort of help here in London offline or online then please mail me and i will be sure to assist.

p.s i heard you interview on cantgetrich again great honestly and dam i was surprised your only 22.

Thanks Again

Art

By: Lord Brar

Lord Brar — Mon, 12 May 2008 01:58:03 +0000

ArtMS – Some “SEO gurus” and clueless newbies dispensing advice at DigitalPoint and other webmaster forums say that it matters — however, the best way to find out is to experiment yourself and see – I did and found it didn’t really matter as they claimed.

The reason why I put SEO gurus in quotes is because these people have nothing better to do than just talk about SEO and they make their money by making claims that may be half-true and keeping people in state of confusion. Probably to sell their own consulting?

I used to lurk a lot on SitePoint, DigitalPoint etc. and guess what? Most of the advice was given by people who had no idea what they were talking about. And people who actually ranked high in search engines and made money, they usually are too busy experimenting with new things to spends hours and hours on some forum.

Yes, the above was a rant.

Hosting location is just one of the THOUSANDS OF FACTORS which Google takes in accounts when ranking. Your incoming links and on-page optimization matters far more than where you host your site.

I don’t have any of my sites hosted in India and still I have my sites ranked in Google India — and that too for some very competitive terms related to Orkut, which is the largest social network in here. And that is just one example.

So overall, it is not as big of a deal as some people try to make it — so if I were you, I’d save money on hosting and spend that on marketing and advertising.

Let me know if you have any questions.